602 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
Range: Western Texas to Lower California, 
New Mexico: Las Cruces; Deming; Tortugas Mountain. Dry mesas, in the Lower 
Sonoran Zone. 
2. Proboscidea louisiana (Mill.) Woot. & Stand], 
Martynia louisiana Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. 8. no. 3. 1768. 
Martynia proboscidea Glox. Obs. Bot. 14. 1785. 
Type Locatity: Vera Cruz, Mexico. 
Ranae: Iowa and Indiana to Mexico. 
New Mexico: South of Roswell; Lake Arthur; Albert; Buchanan. Plains, in the 
Upper Sonoran Zone. 
3. Proboscidea parviflora (Wooton) Woot. & Stand]. 
Martynia parviflora Wooton, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 453. 1898. 
TyPE Locatiry: San Augustine Ranch, at the base of the Organ Mountains, New 
Mexico. Type collected by Wooton (no. 580), 
Ranae: Western Texas and southern New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Las Cruces; San Augustine Ranch; Crain Brothers Ranch; Carlisle; 
Gila River; Engle; Socorro. Dry mesas and low hills, in the Lower Sonoran Zone. 
Order 46. PLANTAGINALES. 
133. PLANTAGINACEAE. Plantain Family. 
1. PLANTAGO L. PLAnrtarn. 
Annual or perennial acaulescent herbs, with usually numerous basal leaves; inflores- 
cence spicate, on scapes; flowers perfect, moneecious, or dicecious, sessile, bracteate; 
calyx of 4 persistent, often scarious-margined sepals; corolla hypogynous, scarious or 
membranous, nerveless, usually persistent, tubular-salverform, with 4 erect or spread- 
ing lobes; stamens 4 or 2, adnate to the throat of the corolla; ovary superior, 1 or 
2-celled or apparently 3 or 4-celled; fruit a circumscissile capsule or pyxis; seeds 1 to 
several in each cell. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Leaves linear. 
Pubescence loose and spreading; bracts much longer than the 
flowers... 2.222.002. 2eeeeeeceeceeeece cece cece 1. P. purshii. 
Pubescence sericeous, appressed; bracts shorter than the 
ce 2. P. argyrea. 
Leaves lanceolate to ovate. 
Spikes short, oblong; seeds concave on the faces.............. 3. P. lanceolata. 
Spikes elongated, cylindric; seeds not concave on the faces. 
Leaves ovate, abruptly contracted at the base; seeds more 
than 2 in each cell... 2.222.020.2200... 0002.02.02222-.. 4. P. major. 
Leaves lanceolate, gradually tapering to the petiole; seeds 
not more than 2 in each cell. 
Plants with copious brown wool at the base........... 5. P. eriopoda. 
Plants not woolly at the base...................-.---. 6. P. tweedyi. 
1. Plantago purshii Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. 3: 120. 1818. 
Plantago gnaphalioides Nutt, Gen. Pl. 1: 100. 1818. ® 
Plantago patagonica gnaphalioides A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 21: 391, 1878. 
TYPE Loca.ity: ‘In dry situations on the banks of the Missouri.” 
Rance: British America to Arizona, Texas, and Missouri. 
New Mexico: Carrizo Mountains; Farmington; Sierra Grande; Nara Visa; Moun- 
tainair; Pajarito Park; Clayton; Las Vegas; Springer; Santa Fe; Socorro Mountain; 
Cliff; Carrizalillo Mountains; Aden; Las Cruces; Organ Mountains. Dry plains and 
hills, in the Lower and Upper Sonoran zones, 
